Car crashes into West Side beauty supply store, woman injured

April 19, 2012|By Jeremy Gorner | Tribune reporter

A store worker saves a piece of glass inside the damaged C J Beauty Supply at Chicago and Kedzie in Chicago after a car crashed through the front window of the store on Thursday, April 19, 2012. (Chris Sweda, Chicago Tribune)

A 50-year-old woman was injured when a car crashed into a beauty supply store this afternoon on the West Side, officials said.

The crash happened about 4:15 p.m. at CJ Beauty Supply, 800 N. Kedzie Ave., near the intersection of Chicago and Kedzie avenues.

The woman was inside the store when the car plowed into the store, officials said.

She was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook Countywhere she was treated and later released, according to Hospital Spokeswoman Marisa Kollias.